Why are Ghanaians shocked that there are LGBT people in the country?

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Because most people assume its only effeminate boys who are gay.

I wonder how they came up with these numbers, but no matter how delusional we may be as Ghanaians, LGBT definitely exists here, and I bet the numbers are higher, especially if you take boarding schools into account 🤷🏽‍♀️

Bruh, it is even higher.

See when I was in SHS in a boys school, in our dorm of 21 students, there were 2 boys who were gay. I saw them red handed doing the thing when I decided not to go to preps that evening in my dorm.

I did not report them though. Yh, becos I myself was one too, I was just too "christian" and scared to involve myself in anything like that in hight school.

I did some small research after that. Man, I can say 4 boys including me was gay.

Our next dorm was even worse. Worse koraaa.

I can therefore tell u that in 10 men, at least 2 if not 3, are gays or have a feeling for the same gender.

But we live in Ghana, u cannot show your you are gay. Even me (I am actually bi). So I lean towards being straight in public.

So I doubt this number. We don't know what we do in secret!

Most people are closeted so I'm wondering how they got this number including me

To anyone not as accustomed to the history of modern day Ghana as I am through the works of people like Bowdich and Dupuis, as well as some captured artefacts, I give you this (warning, it’s nsfw):

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Edit: the first one I used wasn’t original. This one seems to be but the page is down

An Akan gold weight and not a new one. I don’t need to tell you what it depicts. Imma let your eyes do that for you.

Puts into perspective how little people of my country know of their past. There again, I shouldn’t really be surprised. At one point I’ve heard such ridiculous claims that we are the original hebrews. I funnily enough might know who spread this belief indirectly initially.

Just to note I’m straight. But this here validates my view that hating on the lgbtq community is a really dumb idea as 1. Don’t you say you’re following your ancestors? (Although you then worship Christianity, so it’s already a no) and 2. We’ve already got enough problems. Why is it when the government announces the useless promise to properly make the lgbtq community illegal do you forget about the fact that we broke as hell at the moment. Ghanaians never cease to surprise me

Anyways, enough yapping. Imma let you do with this what you will. But before I go, here is a little excerpt from this link: https://archive.org/details/ashanti-kings/page/124/mode/2up?q=Wife&view=theatero

It is a book called “The History of Ashanti Kings and the whole country itself” by Prempeh I starting in 1907, on page 125 where he says:

“When Akoto saw Ossai Tutu he said to him “I love you dearly, my soul has come to you and I love you dearly as I love my wife so I take you as a manly wife.” [((The native word for manly wife is Akoto.)] Then Ossai said “If you love me dearly and take me [for your dea] as a manly wife, I will be your faithful [.....] wife.” When Ossai was at Akom, he [.....] gave him his best care. [.....] When Ossai was to crown King, messengers were sent to call him from Akom. When Ossai came to Kumasi to be King, he always remained as a manly wife to Akoto.”

The calling of another man as your manly wife and meaning it? Sounds kinda gay, doesn’t it? I should remind you, it is supported by Prempeh I, Reindorf and the Banmuhene of Akwamu in 1957, as the same book (pages 124 to 125) also note. And using said Banmuhenes words, it puts Hutchinsons book “Ten years' wanderings among the Ethiopians; with sketches of the manners and customs of the civilized and uncivilized tribes, from Senegal to Gaboon” and its description of favoured slaves into a whole new light on pages 129 and 130 (https://archive.org/details/tenyearswanderi00hutcgoog/page/n152/mode/2up)

I will leave you to make of that what you will. Oh, and happy pride month

LGBTQ people exist everywhere and have always existed. Our homeland Ghana is no different. Colonialism and religious propaganda from the Europeans have successfully brainwashed Africa to hate LGBTQ people

EDIT added a bit because I think some of you have misunderstood what I said

One thing I've always found amusing/interesting in the lgbtq "debate" in Ghana.

Is that the focus is almost exclusively on men. Very rarely, if ever, are there reports or commentary on lgbtq women.

I wish I knew why. I do t think most anti-lgbtq people are even conscious of this.

Bc we are delusional and really need to have a moment of clarity....

Even 16 years old girls in Ghana knows what a stud and fem means

Love is love ❤️

They’re shocked because men are lying.

Every man I know swears he’s never even thought about another penis … but every openly gay man I know has been busy since boarding school.

WHAT that many???

I'm so glad to hear, shout-out to the uncounted people as well!! 🫶🏿🏳️‍🌈

HAPPY PRIDE!!! MUAH 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🦄🦄🦄🏳️‍🌈🦄🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈

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The answer to “why” are Ghanaians shocked is the same answer to why anyone is shocked anywhere else in the world. because they’re ignorant.

non-heterosexual non-cisgender people have been around the SAME amount of time as heterosexual cisgender people.

But whoever has the power dictates what is acceptable in society.. the church has something to do with it as well. It’s a mixture of things but ultimately boils down to ignorance in my book. Expand your horizons, seek knowledge and you won’t be shocked anymore..

Because just like kids they shouldn’t be seen or heard .

As I have always believed, Ghanaian leaders are being delusional if they think they can pass a law and homosexuals will disappear. These are gays oh lesbians have not come in yet.

Hmmm

No, Ghanaians are not shocked.

Ghanaian find this to be a problem American are gonna find a problem because they want it to happen

Look beyond the surface of this publication

That's a very specific number 😂😂😂😂

Some people are gay , get over it . End of story .

I want a gay man to date

People do things Ghanaian society doesn't accept. What a shocker.

Because nobody seems to believe

See this is again a problem with the African diaspora as a whole is that when these things these polarizing things happen people really don't take the time to educate themselves whether you're a Guyana whether you're in the Caribbean whether I don't know you're in Thailand people do not take the time to educate themselves.

I personally have no problem with someone who's gay or homosexual but people need to understand the history of homosexuality and how Europeans used it as a way to break is down into destroy our family unit during slavery.

It was very common for the slaver pos to have sex with the males in front of their wives as a way to emasculate them.

As a way to say that he is not a man.

This is just a very simple explanation people need to understand why people don't like this why some people in the Caribbean don't like this because it didn't just come about naturally it was used as a weapon against us to break us down and people see it as infiltration of our people by the Europeans again and that's why it has such a polarizing notation today.

And I wish people would actually read and educate themselves so they can come to their own conclusion because you shouldn't hate someone because they're gay but you need to understand that they use it against us and weaponize it against us to destroy our family and destroy our unit as a whole.

We don't live in Europe we're not Europeans. So our relationship with homosexuality is not the same it's not a liberating Force when originally they used it as a way to emasculate us and to destroy our family unit.

I really never buy these numbers. Some number are over estimated to give people a false reality especially from biased media sources. LGBT in African countries is pretty lower than most over estimated numbers.

Gays and lesbians have always been around, and no one cared but not LGBT... and the rest of the acronyms added. They were designed as tools for disruption and to destroy the traditional family unit. With one of the aims being population control. This agenda and tag we don't want here, period.

Even 16 years old girls in Ghana knows what a stud and fem means

Azin watin Dey sup

Me personally have no issue with someone being a gay or lesbian but don’t try to initiate me or my family into it, just be on your own.

Why are people down voting the comments that don't look to be in support of LGBTQ

Its crazy, if everyone was gay, who would be giving birth to who. Can believe folks are here dignifying this Madness. I understand when people in the US are delusional, but you're here in Africa trying to assimilate. I have no problem what people do in private, but public must be left out of it.